The Joe Walker Podcast

Sam Roggeveen — Why the US Won't Fight China for Dominance (and What it Means for Australia) [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]

Peter Tulip — What Will It Actually Take to Solve the Housing Crisis? [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]

Judith Brett — How a Benthamite Political Culture Shaped Australia's Electoral System [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]

Why Australia Gets It Done: A Conversation on State Capacity — Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton

Andrew Leigh — Inequality and Egalitarianism [Australian Policy Series]

Australian Policy Series: Inside Immigration Policy — Abul Rizvi

Behind the Scenes of My Interview Research Process — Andy Matuschak Crashes My Crib

Eugene Fama — For Whom Is The Market Efficient?

2025 Announcement

Richard Butler — Nuclear Diplomacy at the End of History

Larry Summers — AGI and the Next Industrial Revolution

Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan

In this interview, Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses a range of topics, beginning with a discussion on black swan events and fat-tailed distributions, and transitioning to finance, where he critiques the efficient market hypothesis and advocates for tail-hedging strategies. Taleb shares his views on venture capital, beha...

Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Culture Drove Human Brain Size, Allowed Us To Dominate Earth, And Is Leading Us Astray

Lucy Turnbull — Urbanism, YIMBYism, and How to Solve Australia's Housing Crisis (Bonus Live Episode)

Bryan Caplan — The Economics of Housing Abundance

2023 Retrospective — A Listener Interviews Me

David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), & The Enemies of Progress

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a theoretically achievable milestone rooted in computational universality, yet its practical realization remains constrained by the slow, empirical process of knowledge acquisition. While AGI might eventually necessitate personhood and moral rights to ensure creative autonomy, c...

Shruti Rajagopalan — On Spotting Talent, And Making Sense of Rising India

Raghuram Rajan — Debt, Monetary Policy, and Unintended Consequences

Peter Singer — Moral Truths and Moral Secrets